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Lenox is a town on U.S. Highway 41 in northern Cook County in south Georgia.

Lenox was platted in 1888, when the railroad was extended to that point, and railroad workers drawn by the area's fine timber first called the little place Mogul.

According to tradition, the town was named after a certain "lean ox" — two farmers at the train depot are said to have watched workers load an old, skinny ox and remarked on how lean it was.

The Georgia General Assembly incorporated Lenox in 1901.

Lenox celebrates its unusual naming story with the annual Lean-Ox Festival, held each November.

The town became an agricultural hub for south-central Georgia, and the rise of produce farming — including watermelons — put Lenox on the map with produce brokers from as far away as Florida and Missouri.

The Battle of Brushy Creek, in which the Georgia Militia fought Seminole Indians through the woods around Brushy Creek, is a state historical landmark in the area near Lenox.

The population was 752 at the 2020 census, in 333 households, down from a peak of 965 residents in 1980.

Lenox lies in Cook County, Georgia's 153rd county, created from Berrien County in 1918 and named for General Philip Cook; the county seat is Adel.